Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-01-19
Legislative Notes.

One of the petitions presented to the House
yesterday asking for the incorporation of q
new water company at Bar Harbor, bore the
signature of Mr.. Blaine.
Hon. A. w. Paine will advocate his "vot-
ing by proxy" bill in the legislature. He
will also endeavor to have the mas, restric-
ton on divorces removed.
The order providing that State elections be
held in November instead of September as
as at present, was presented by Mr.. New
bert of Appleton, not Mr.. Manley of Au
gusta, as enormously stated by the Associated
Press.
Four ex members OF the legislature of
thirty wears ago met at tn" State House
yesterday viz Hon. john c. ralbJt, East
Machias; Josiah Ii. Drumnond Portland ;
William Dickey, Fort Kent: Dexter Merrill
Orono.
Samuel Appleton, s. J. Abbott, [. S
Bangs, F. E. Heath, Nathaniel Meai,-r, John
Ware. F. F. Webb, W. B. Arnold, G. A.
Phillips and ]. w. Philbrick ask to be in
corporated into company to supply Wste.-
Vile with water from the kennebec river
or Massaonskec stream.
Joseph Francis. represeu tative of the
Penobscot tribe of Indians and 2. J. Gabriel
Pas.amaquoddv Indians. well dressed and
quiet gentlemen, called on the Gov; rnor
Yesterday and had talk with him relative to
the wants of their people The latter and
his wife were hired by the government at
$50 month and expenses, to represent the
Indians at the Centennial, remaining in
Philadelphia from June to November. He is
quite intelligent.
The telegraph company aimed at by Sen
ator Gilbert in his order relative to the more
prompt transmission OF dispatches between
connecting lines, is the Great Northwestern,
doing business along the Grand Trunk Rail-
road, where it is alleged there is great delay
in the transmission of dispatches ard when
complaints are made to the management no
satisfaction can be secured. Mr.. Gilbert
does not believe il should take day and a
half for dispatch to travel from Canton to
Portland.
A veteran ex-legisator Hon. r. B. Dunn,
of Waterville. was seen in legislative halls
Yesterday, greeting his many friends. He is
one of the oldest surviving ex-members OF a
Maine legislature, having served the State,
representing Poland, in 1881, the last year of
meeting in Portland also the year following.
Mr.. Dunn possesses a surprisingly well pre-
served memory and accurately relates anec-
dotes and incidents which occurred over half
a century ago. He recolects that during one
session so severe was the weather that for
six weeks the water did not even drop from
the roofs.
The petition from Augusta asking for the
incarceration of the Maine State Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals num-
bers 81 names The Augusta gentlemen who
ask to become members Of the society by in
corporation are Judge Artsmus Liobey, Judge
w. p. Whitehouse, w. B. Lapham, l.. T..
Carleton, Herbert NJ. Heath, Howard Owen,
VIM s. Badger, VIM. Il. Smith. l. B Fow-
Ter. Thomas J. Lynch. II. S. Whitman, Alden
Sprs que, Charles A. Sprague, Hiram Reed,
G.. T. Stevens, w. T. Haines, s. G. White.
house, Selden Conner, Orville ID. Baker, A.
c. Otis. C. r. McFadden.
The petition of F. H. Gould and twenty
one others of Milo, against the repeal of the
trustee process introduced in the Senate
Yesterday reads: THE undersigned citizens
of Maine residing and doing business in Milo,
believing that the existing remedies at law for
the collection of debts are sufficiently weak
and inadequate, and viewing with apprehen-
sion and alarm the proposed attempt to repeal,
change or modify the laws authorizing arrests
for debt and the trustee process, do hereby
respectfully demonstrate against any changes
in these laws which may inJure or retard
business in order to permeate demsgoguery.
LithgOw Library.
At the annual meeting of the trustee OF